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Community college students Drama Community colleges Drama Developmentally disabled Social conditions Libraries Cost control Library administration Organizational change Organizational effectiveness Public services (Libraries) United States Universities and colleges United States DirectoriesFranek, Robert
Summary: A survey of life on the nation's campuses offers detailed profiles of the best colleges and rankings of colleges in dozens of different categories, along with a wealth of information and applications tips.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Entering their epic senior year at Greendale Community College, these people aren't just a study group, they're family! They'll have to be if they hope to survive a comedy-crammed year with everything from an alienating sci-fi convention, a German re-invasion, and a Thanksgiving dinner from hell to a hostage-taking Christmas, a life-changing father/son reunion and even an epic transformation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD COMSummary: 'Bear Down' for the most jaw-dropping, polygraph-taking, hot lava-walking, ass-crack-bandit-pursuing, fantasy-roleplay-gaming, animated 'G.I. Jeff'-hallucinating, hidden treasure-hunting, college campus-saving season that gets a rating of five MeowMeowBeenz!
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD COMSummary: A smooth-tongued attorney must deal with an extremely eclectic staff and student body when he is forced to attend a local community college after his education is deemed invalid by the bar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD COMSummary: Welcome back for a wild new year at Greendale Community College, as the study group faces their toughest tests yet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD COMSummary: Mega-guide to 1,573 colleges and universities. 2019 edition of The Complete Book of Colleges includes indexes listing schools according to cost, location, size, and selectivity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 378 COMSummary: The story of the photoelectric effect is an ongoing one, from its discovery in 1887 to its use in a myriad of today's devices, such as cameras and cell phones. This program tells that story, charting the contributions of Hertz, Lenard, Planck, and Einstein, while making use of actual experiments, clever demonstrations, and formulas that describe each aspect of a crucial physics phenomenon....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: A life-sustaining envelope of gas surrounds the earth. This atmosphere contains oxygen, CO2, water vapor, and other gases-it is what generates climate, which affects all living beings. This program analyzes the sun's gradual brightening and the relationship between sunlight and CO2, explains why the atmospheres of Mars and Venus cannot sustain life, theorizes about the disappearance of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: While many nations and communities benefit from the fast track to globalization, others are in danger of being left behind. This program explores concepts embodied in the mantra, "Think globally, act locally," focusing on businesses and organizations that help to revitalize isolated and disadvantaged areas, thereby expanding access to the wider economy. Judy Wicks, founder of Philadelphia's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: A guide to over 1,700 two-year colleges provides students with school profiles focusing on academics, majors, tuition, application requirements, and student life, with a state-by-state comparison chart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peterson's 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 378 PETSummary: How serious is the "greenhouse effect" on global climate and the environment? Very, says Dr. Jessica Tuchman Mathews, a Ph.D. in biochemistry and biophysics. We are now facing the specter of the "greenhouse effect," the prospect of overloading the earth's atmosphere with gases released when industrial nations burn fossil fuels like coal and oil, and the Third World strips its forests to farm...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Baier, Lowell E.
Summary: In this book, Lowell E. Baier, one of America s preeminent experts on environmental litigation, chronicles the century-long story of Americas resources management, focusing on litigations, citizen suit provisions, and attorneys fees. He provides the first book-length comprehensive examination of the little-known Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA) and its role in environmental litigation....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 344 BAISummary: Mute until the age of nine, Stephen Wiltshire learned to communicate through realistic, richly detailed drawings. Alonzo Clemens sculpts clay animal figures with great precision, even though he can barely form a sentence. Matt Savage faced extraordinary developmental problems as a child but has become a teen prodigy among jazz musicians. What is the relationship between creativity and autistic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Peterson's® Four-Year Colleges 2020 is a valuable resource that includes information on every accredited four-year undergraduate institution in the U.S. and Canada, more than 2,500 institutions in all. It also includes detailed two-page descriptions written by admissions personnel for over 175 colleges and universities. College-bound students and their parents can access details including...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peterson's 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 378.73 PETGrunbaum, Mara
Summary: "The Book describes the greenhouse effect"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.738 GRUSummary: The sixth and final season, that consists of thirteen episodes that were aired on Yahoo Screen online.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Homayoun, Ana
Summary: "What if a getting [sic] into top four-year college is no longer the holy grail of success that it once seemed to be? What if the key to kids achieving their potential in life has less to do with grades or test scores and more with critical skills overlooked in schools? Erasing the Finish Line directly addresses those points by highlighting a reality about our education system that we seem to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Go 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: One small act of kindness can change the world. Lady Gaga has always believed in the importance celebrating individuality, acting with empathy, and being kind to yourself and other. She and her mother, Cynthia Germanotta, founded Born This Way Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to making the world a kinder and braver place. Within these pages you will meet young change makers who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.235 CHALutz, Amy S. F.
Summary: "In her 2006 memoir Strange Son, Portia Iversen coined the phrase "intact mind" to describe the typical cognitive abilities she believed were buried within even the most seemingly impaired autistic individuals, like her son Dov - who, at nine years old, was completely nonverbal and spent much of his time "chewing on blocks and tapping stones." Although he didn't know the alphabet, colors, or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.85 LUTSummary: "America's leading college directory and a perennial favorite among high school guidance counselors is a recognized authority in comparative college ratings The brand-new edition of Barron's Profiles of American Colleges describes more than 1,650 colleges, with up-to-date facts and figures covering: Admission requirements and procedures; Tuitions, fees, and financial aid sources; Library,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barron's Educational Series, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 378 PROHeller, Anne Conover.
Summary: A comprehensive and eye-opening portrait of one of the most significant and improbable figures of the twentieth century--from her childhood in Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution to her years as a screenwriter in Hollywood, the publication of her blockbuster novels, and the rise and fall of the cult that formed around her in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RAND, AYN HELHuber, John J.
Summary: From the publisher: In the years since John Huber’s trailblazing Lean Library Management was published, budget pressures on libraries have only increased. Yet libraries who have adopted his strategies have turned conventional management thinking—that if budgets are reduced, customer service suffers—on its head. These libraries have proven that by streamlining and improving customer services,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Neal-Schuman, an imprint of the American Library Association 2015
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1 available in Reference Office Reference, Call number: OFR 020 HUBSummary: 'The Who, What, and Where of America' is designed to provide a sampling of key demographic information. It covers the United States, every state, each metropolitan statistical area, and all the counties and cities with a population of 20,000 or more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bernan Press 2019